NASA announced the crew on Tuesday for its Artemis III mission, the next crewed flight in the agency’s Artemis program and a critical step toward returning astronauts to the moon later this decade.

The crew consists of Coast Guard Reserve Cmdr. Andre Douglas; Col. Frank Rubio, an Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot and family medicine physician; and Italian space station commander and Air Force Col. Luca Parmitano. The crew will be led by mission commander Randy Bresna, a two-time astronaut, former space station commander, and Marine Corps colonel.